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Very Serious Topic nods

Jul 24, 2011 08:21

"The Doctor and Rose is, at its heart, a love story without the shagging." ~ David Tennant

Is DT right? Or is his inner eight-year-old fanboy saying "EW. COOTIES!"? Were there sexytimes on the TARDIS? If so, when did they start?

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annissag July 24 2011, 15:35:18 UTC

I'm with Tennant on this one. I don't think there was shagging on the TARDIS. But I wish there was... That's why I read fanfic.

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silvervintage82 July 24 2011, 18:39:47 UTC

Yeah, I agree with Tennant. This is a love story but it's certainly not one with shagging...onscreen anyway. Still, I think there are very good arguments that they didn't sleep together due to his baggage. I'm okay either way. For me, a fantastic romance doesn't need the couple to sleep together. In fact, that can most of the time, be even more romantic if they don't.

just_a_dram July 24 2011, 16:28:07 UTC

Torn on this. On the one hand, I don't think there was shagging. On the other hand, sometimes I would turn to my husband and say--come on, they're shagging, right? I would think late in Ten/Rose if so, however.

wander_realtai July 24 2011, 16:29:18 UTC

It would be nice to think of it that way, though I think the Doctor wasn't in the frame of mind to let it go to that level. The irony of it is that, in my opinion, when she was with him, he was so terrified of losing her that he kept her at a certain distance (despite how close they were, and how much she meant to him), and when he did lose her, he realized just what it was that he had lost, and what opportunities he had that he never took and would now never be able to.

fid_gin July 24 2011, 17:13:23 UTC

I am probably the only person I know who thinks that they were shagging. I believe it happened at least once, near the end of S2, in the way that it does between friends who know they feel so much more for each other but just aren't prepared to declare it.

spellweaver731 July 24 2011, 20:37:48 UTC

That is exactly what I think. There is a subtle change in the tone of their relationship in the second half of series two. or maybe that is just me.

kilodalton July 25 2011, 00:08:36 UTC

There is a subtle change in the tone of their relationship in the second half of series two. or maybe that is just me.

It's totally not just you! That was intentional by RTD. He apparently mentioned this in the commentary from "The Idiot's Lantern". That after this point, that Ten and Rose are 100% together. He said that it was a conscious decision to put roadblocks in their relationship in the first half of the season because otherwise, the only place for their relationship to grow would be "places that weren't appropriate for a kid's show" (paraphrased).